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Bridging the divide

Added: 23 Jul 2012

The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

EU-backed project harnesses the potential of food waste

Added: 23 Jul 2012

York, UK- Scientists at the University of York are leading a major EU-backed network that is explor…

Lab

Cardiff University to catalyse manufacturing

Added: 20 Jul 2012

Cardiff, UK - Cardiff University is investing £3 million in the Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) a…

Eni chemicals plant

Eni board's Petronas' RAPID complex

Added: 20 Jul 2012

Pengerang, Malaysia - Petronas has signed a heads of agreement with Italy-based Versalis SpA, part …

SABIC CAMERA Teesside

Thermal imaging for hazardous environments

Added: 19 Jul 2012

?Thermal imaging offers clear advantages in ATEX-rated and other hazardous environments, but the la…

PSM is deemed by the HSE to be a ‘hot topic’ for high-hazard sites

UK industries pay world's highest 'carbon' costs

Added: 16 Jul 2012

London – UK energy and climate change policies add more to its energy-intensive industries’ electri…

BP Texas refinery

Operating procedure key to process safety

Added: 16 Jul 2012

Article based on Honeywell white paper. Contributors: Subhankar Dey - Senior Marketing Specialist, …

Extinguishing fire using sound

Added: 16 Jul 2012

DARPA has demonstrated techniques to extinguish small flames using electric and acoustic suppression

Flow meter research to benefit process industries

Added: 13 Jul 2012

A new type of flow meter could facilitate the measurement of multiple velocities in a pipeline

BP Texas refinery

BP settles Texas City refinery citations

Added: 13 Jul 2012

London – BP Products North America Inc. has reached an agreement with the US Occupational Safety an…

AFC fuel cells

Alkaline fuel cell for UK chemical plant

Added: 12 Jul 2012

London – AFC Energy has commenced a joint project with Industrial Chemicals Ltd (ICL) to install an…

Saudi Aramco

New Saudi Aramco venture to target energy technologies

Added: 12 Jul 2012

Dhahran Saudi Arabia – Saudi Aramco has launched of a new corporate venturing subsidiary Saudi Aram…

Showa Denko biopolymer

Showa Denko starts biopolymer production

Added: 12 Jul 2012

Tokyo – Showa Denko KK (SDK) has started commercial-scale production of biodegradable polyester res…

Roquettte Landia airjet

Roquette costs set to dive

Added: 10 Jul 2012

Keokuk, Iowa – Located in Keokuk on the Iowa/Illinois border, the heart of corn production country,…

Lab

UK chemical engineers report positive pay trends

Added: 4 Jul 2012

London – UK chemical engineers have experienced positive pay trends with salaries continuing to ris…

BASF Antwerp Cracker

BASF to build butadiene plant in Antwerp

Added: 4 Jul 2012

Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Ant…

Argex TiO2 grahpic

Argex claims TiO2 process 'breakthrough'

Added: 4 Jul 2012

Montreal, Quebec – Canadian company Argex Mining Inc. claims to have made a breakthrough with its p…

KSB at Solvay

Reducing pumps energy use at chemicals facility

Added: 2 Jul 2012

London – ?Solvay Fluor GmbH has reduced power consumption by a quarter at a modernised re-cooling s…

Samsung TAKREER UAE

Samsung for $2,5bn carbon/coker unit in UAE

Added: 25 Jun 2012

Seoul, Korea - Samsung Engineering has received a letter of award for a carbon black and delayed co…

Solar thermal

Fraunhofer network expands

Added: 25 Jun 2012

London - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) and German applied research organisation Fraunhofer-G…